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All Is Well... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: Hi, guys. I am here. Justin, After Show Podcast is on.
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  Speaker 1: And I think for the very first time in a
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  Speaker 1: year since I've been doing this podcast solo with special
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  Speaker 1: guests sometimes, I missed an after show. You can double
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  Speaker 1: check that, but I'm pretty sure I've done five days
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  Speaker 1: a week or any day that we had the regular show,
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  Speaker 1: there was an after show. I really do apologize. One
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  Speaker 1: of our listeners, an After Show Army member, pointed out
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  Speaker 1: to me through DM that That the last after show
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday– yes, no, Monday. No, was it Monday? No, Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: We had the big meeting with the big wigs and
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  Speaker 1: I made a stupid joke about maybe they were going
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  Speaker 1: to come in and fire everybody. And then what do
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  Speaker 1: you know? No after show on Wednesday. So she's like,
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  Speaker 1: what happened? We're a little bit nervous right here. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of people actually messaged me about that. All is well.
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain what happened. First, we'll get to the meeting
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Yeah, they flew in all these big wigs.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool. It was nice to see them. These
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  Speaker 1: are the people that run our company. And it was
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  Speaker 1: what I said, right? It was just a change to
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  Speaker 1: how we do kind of live commercials and clients and
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  Speaker 1: things like that because we're in the advertising business, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: advertisers come to us to advertise their product. That's how
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  Speaker 1: we make money. Those are the commercials and the spots
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  Speaker 1: that we read. And it's a big deal. So they
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  Speaker 1: just want to make sure that we're doing our best
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  Speaker 1: to give them The best experience when they come to
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  Speaker 1: us and they pay money to get commercials on that
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  Speaker 1: we are accommodating them. So that's really what it was
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  Speaker 1: all about. But we're fine. Boston's good. We're one of
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  Speaker 1: the highest performing markets, cities for the company. And so
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of going around to all the biggest ones,
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  Speaker 1: the top 10 or top 20 cities. and kind of
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  Speaker 1: just checking in and being like, okay, we want to
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  Speaker 1: start doing this, make sure the live reads are being done,
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  Speaker 1: and that the message is getting out. So just some
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  Speaker 1: behind-the-scenes radio stuff, nothing too crazy. Got to give a
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  Speaker 1: shout-out to Gandhi, though, my dear friend Gandhi. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you know who she is. She worked
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  Speaker 1: here for a couple of years, way back in 2015 or–
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  Speaker 1: I think she worked 2015 to 2018, and then she
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  Speaker 1: got hired by the Elvis Duran Show in New York.
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  Speaker 1: So she's been there. The big, big boss, so my
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  Speaker 1: boss's boss in New York came in. And it's so
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  Speaker 1: funny because she was standing. We're all gathered outside of
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  Speaker 1: our performance studio where the meeting was. And she's standing.
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  Speaker 1: She walks in and I look at her and I've
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  Speaker 1: never actually met her. And so now this is a
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  Speaker 1: woman highly accomplished. She runs many different radio stations, like
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  Speaker 1: a really, really like legit radio person. And I made
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  Speaker 1: a joke to McCabe and I said, do you think
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  Speaker 1: she knows who I am? And he said, yeah, of
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  Speaker 1: course she does. Of course she knows who you are.
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  Speaker 1: You're Justin. So then my boss, Dylan walks right by.
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  Speaker 1: I go watch this. And I said to Dylan, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: do you think that she knows who I am? And
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  Speaker 1: he goes, um, have you met her before? And I said, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't. And he's like, um, well, we'll make sure
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  Speaker 1: you meet her today. And I'm like, told you to McCabe,
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  Speaker 1: but turns out after the meeting, She came right over
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  Speaker 1: to me because he must have went and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to meet Justin? That she knew who
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  Speaker 1: I was because of Gandhi. And she said, Gandhi has
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  Speaker 1: spoken very highly of you and what you do and
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  Speaker 1: your value to the company. And she was like, you
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  Speaker 1: have a really good friend there, you know, because she
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  Speaker 1: works in New York. She runs, you know, helps oversee
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  Speaker 1: the Elvis Duran show, the Breakfast Club. She built the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club radio show. She's like the real deal. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, my God. She's like, actually, let's
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  Speaker 1: take a selfie together and I'll send it to Gandhi.
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  Speaker 1: So we took a selfie. It was just a really
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  Speaker 1: cool moment, you know. This is a giant company. We're
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  Speaker 1: just one small part of it in Boston. But they
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  Speaker 1: own 850 radio stations, right? And so obviously Boston is
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  Speaker 1: one of the top cities. We're top 10 market. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these people are overseeing so many employees.
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  Speaker 1: And I was just kind of just making the playful joke.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think she knows who I am? And it
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  Speaker 1: turns out she did. So the meeting was good. I
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  Speaker 1: missed the after show yesterday. I apologize. My dad's in
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. He's in Mass General. He's doing okay. Some
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  Speaker 1: things are going on with him. Hopefully, he'll be home
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  Speaker 1: by the weekend if all goes well today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what happened. Over the summer, he started feeling kind
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  Speaker 1: of weak. He wasn't feeling great. Now, my dad is retired,
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  Speaker 1: but he does a lot of walking. He works out
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  Speaker 1: at the Y in Malden, and he uses the sauna
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  Speaker 1: and the steam room and the shower. He has a
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  Speaker 1: whole routine that he does. He eats good. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he eats enough, but that's another story for another day.
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  Speaker 1: He does intermittent fasting, which I think is more of
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  Speaker 1: just he doesn't want to pay for food because he's
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  Speaker 1: so cheap. God love him. Anyway, he started not feeling right,
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  Speaker 1: not feeling well. And he kind of was saying it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've just been feeling that great lately to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, you should get it checked out.
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  Speaker 1: And time went on and throughout the summer. And then he,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kept saying it. So I said to my brother,
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  Speaker 1: who's a nurse, you know, we need to figure out dad.
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  Speaker 1: So he called his doctor. They went in and did
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of blood work and, you know, heard his symptoms.
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  Speaker 1: And they did all kinds of scans, right? They did
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  Speaker 1: a colonoscopy. They did a CAT scan. And they saw
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  Speaker 1: some things in his stomach that they didn't like, some lesions.
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  Speaker 1: So they did an endoscopy where they put the camera
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  Speaker 1: down and they take out some portions of the lesions
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  Speaker 1: to test them for potentially you know what. So that
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  Speaker 1: was about a week and a half ago. So my
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  Speaker 1: brother took him to Mass General. He got the endoscopy done.
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  Speaker 1: And then he didn't come to my house on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: this past Sunday. He comes up every Sunday. Did not come.
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  Speaker 1: And so we called him. And it turns out he went–
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  Speaker 1: he woke up Sunday. He didn't sleep Saturday night. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't feeling right. Didn't tell anybody. Didn't sleep Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday he woke up, went to the gym, walked to
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  Speaker 1: the Y, did a little workout, still didn't feel right,
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  Speaker 1: did sauna, still didn't feel right, went home. When he
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  Speaker 1: got back to his house, he passed out. Like he
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  Speaker 1: was standing there and he like fell faint and literally
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  Speaker 1: hit the ground. So then he like comes to, goes
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom because he had to go to the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: passes out again in the bathroom, smashes his head. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't call 911, doesn't call anybody. He comes to thank
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  Speaker 1: God and basically crawls up the stairs to his bed
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  Speaker 1: and just lays down and goes to sleep. Okay. This
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  Speaker 1: is not good. So he's laying in bed. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he was actually sleeping or just kind of
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  Speaker 1: just like laying there, but Nani, my mother-in-law was calling him,
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  Speaker 1: blowing him up over and over again. Cause we were
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  Speaker 1: freaking out. Like, where is he? I tried calling him,
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  Speaker 1: didn't answer. Jen tried calling, didn't answer. So then Nani
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  Speaker 1: was blowing him up. Finally, he answers. And he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing good. Well, you need to go to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. So went to the hospital. They admitted him.
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  Speaker 1: And turns out he has some bleeding internally in his stomach,
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  Speaker 1: likely from the endoscopy. And it was just slowly bleeding
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  Speaker 1: over the past week or so. And so it took
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of time. The way the doctor at
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  Speaker 1: Mass General explained it to me yesterday, when it's a
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  Speaker 1: small bleed, your body can handle that. To an extent.
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  Speaker 1: But when it gets to be too much blood loss inside.
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  Speaker 1: That's when there's problems. And also he's anemic my dad.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the passing out. So they did another
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  Speaker 1: round of scans. Throughout his body. And they also found
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  Speaker 1: a blood clot. In his brain. I know it sounds scary.
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  Speaker 1: We were freaked out about this too. But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: Today they're going to go in. And they're going to
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  Speaker 1: go into his pelvis. And they're going to wire up.
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  Speaker 1: to his brain. And I guess there are these, they
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  Speaker 1: can't do anything about the blood that's in there now.
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  Speaker 1: So he had previous blood from like a prior fall
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  Speaker 1: because he's fallen a lot. He's just clumsy. So he
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  Speaker 1: had previous bleeding there, but then he had some new, very,
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  Speaker 1: very trace amounts of blood or a blood clot or
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  Speaker 1: something that they can't do anything about, but they can
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  Speaker 1: do something with the arteries in the head where they
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  Speaker 1: can basically block them. So it's more preventative. So if
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  Speaker 1: he falls again, more blood won't go in. That's how
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  Speaker 1: they explained it. That's how I took it. Whatever. So
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  Speaker 1: that's today. So then tomorrow they're doing another endoscopy to
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  Speaker 1: try to fix the bleeding in the stomach. If they're
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  Speaker 1: able to do both of those things and they all
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  Speaker 1: go well, he'll probably come home this weekend to my
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  Speaker 1: house because he's not going back to his house. This
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  Speaker 1: is a big issue in my life. My childhood home
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  Speaker 1: where my grandmother and my grandfather raised their family and
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  Speaker 1: then I lived there my whole life. Now, my grandmother
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  Speaker 1: passed on a couple of years ago. So it's my
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  Speaker 1: dad on the second and third floor and then his sister,
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  Speaker 1: my aunt, on the first floor. And so they need
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  Speaker 1: to sell the house because my dad can't be there alone.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, they just there's some hesitation there,
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  Speaker 1: which I get because think about it. Everything that he
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  Speaker 1: knows is down here. He loves living there. It's right
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  Speaker 1: next to Malden Station. He can walk to the grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: He can go to the Y. All of his friends
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  Speaker 1: are at the Y. He's very scared to make a change.
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  Speaker 1: But that change needs to come. It needs to come.
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  Speaker 1: It was hard for my wife's grandmother. She lived in
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  Speaker 1: Medford in that house since 1970. But when she turned
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  Speaker 1: like 80, 81, she was in the hospital. And it's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: you can't go back to your house by yourself. And look,
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  Speaker 1: she struggled, but now she's thriving. She loves it up there.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the plan. So if he gets discharged, when
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  Speaker 1: he gets discharged, he's coming back to our house. And
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  Speaker 1: we might send him to my brother's too because my
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  Speaker 1: brother lives in Haverhill and his wife, Emily, works from
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  Speaker 1: home as does my wife, Jen, and all of the
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  Speaker 1: medical people. My wife's a nurse. My brother's a nurse.
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  Speaker 1: His wife, Emily, is a pharmacist. So it's really actually cool.
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  Speaker 1: My wife just continues to impress me. Because I said
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  Speaker 1: to my dad, we need access to the portal, your
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  Speaker 1: health portal. We can't be listening to you and getting
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  Speaker 1: information from your doctor through you because he doesn't understand anything.
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  Speaker 1: He's a little wishy-washy like that. So he finally gave
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  Speaker 1: us access. and my wife was able to go in
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  Speaker 1: and give my brother access. So now everybody has access
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  Speaker 1: to his portal. So yesterday we were talking to him.
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  Speaker 1: I brought Abel and Gemma. Abel and Gemma actually got
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  Speaker 1: to come to the radio station yesterday. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people don't know this, but they came in. And they
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  Speaker 1: watched the last segment of the break. Got to watch
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  Speaker 1: Dad on the radio. So that was very cool. And
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  Speaker 1: then we went to Target and we got him new
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  Speaker 1: clothes and new underwear and phone charger and glasses and food, snacks,
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  Speaker 1: got him a bunch of stuff. Went there. His sister,
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  Speaker 1: my Aunt Kathy, was there as well. And we sat
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  Speaker 1: with him. And when we first got there, he was
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  Speaker 1: just down. He feels okay, but he was just– it's
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  Speaker 1: so sad, man. I hate hospitals. I'm grateful. Mass General
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  Speaker 1: is the best hospital ever. But still, it's just like–
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  Speaker 1: it's gloomy, man. It's a gloomy place. So to walk
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  Speaker 1: in there, he's just laying there. But then like once
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  Speaker 1: we were all gathered around, you know, and it gave
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  Speaker 1: him all the stuff and he got to plug his
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  Speaker 1: phone in. So it would charge. He just felt so
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  Speaker 1: much better. It was, it was really nice. So thank
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  Speaker 1: you for all the concerns. Some people were DMing about yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: missing the after show all as well. This is life, man.
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  Speaker 1: This is life, you know, and another thing, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it's like to be 74 years old, right.
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  Speaker 1: And kind of be on the, the second half of
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  Speaker 1: a life as you, you know, if you will. But
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  Speaker 1: my dad keeps like thinking about the end. And I'm like, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do that. And I know I'm younger. So
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  Speaker 1: it's hard. It's easy for me to say because I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel the feelings that he that he has. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, if you keep thinking about the end, that's
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  Speaker 1: a negative headspace to be in. I'm like, look, you
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  Speaker 1: have today. Okay, you have today because he's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if I make it out of this, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'll get another five or 10 years. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know that. Your mother just lived to 102
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  Speaker 1: years old. Your father lived to 90. And could have
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  Speaker 1: been treated. He had prostate cancer that came back. He
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  Speaker 1: just didn't want to do the treatment again. He said, no,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm good. And he passed at home. Both of
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  Speaker 1: them passed at home. Both of his parents in Malden,
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  Speaker 1: which was crazy. We got to be there while they
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  Speaker 1: passed and say our goodbyes. So I'm like, you worry
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  Speaker 1: about today. I'm like, look, you're going to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Look, you got all of us. You got
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  Speaker 1: plenty of family there to help you and take care
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  Speaker 1: of you. So that's what it's all about. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: there you go. There's the update. I wish I could
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  Speaker 1: stay and hang out for a long time, but I
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  Speaker 1: have to shoot a Jingle Ball video with producer Riley,
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  Speaker 1: and then we have meetings. More meetings. More, more meetings.
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  Speaker 1: Never ends. So anyway, I love you guys. Tomorrow's Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Feel good about that. Payday around here. We love it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm well. All is well. Everything is good here. And
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  Speaker 1: as always, thank you so much for listening. Talk soon.